The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
—Alexander Jablokov

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Oh, the Irony!

Anyone who gets a subscription to Reader's Digest should check out their March edition. I'm still scratching my head over it.Near the end, in the "Eat Me!" or "Eat This!" section (something like that) a reader wrote in about being bored with winter veggies. The nutrition/recipe guru wrote about cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower. Mentioned how they were great cancer fighters.Then went on to recommend frying the cabbage in bacon fat to make it taste good!The cancer won't get a chance to eat you up. Your blocked arteries will choke the life out of you first!!I'm going to extend the time for the last round of new American Midol entries for one more day---midnight on Thursday. I've been a bad bad host and was too busy to pimp it today.Don't forget to scroll down and vote for your favorite bad poem for this week!

Best way to eat cabbage is fresh from the garden with a little bit of salt, just like Grandma did. And you don't lose every bit of nutritional value that way, like you do by frying it. (Ugh! I know you're not s'posed to knock something until you've tried it, but I'm a'knockin'.)

Hi Attila,“Eat Me” sounds like something from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. Picture the “average Joe” whose IQ is about that of a squid, thumbing through “Reader’s Digest” and coming upon the suggestion of frying cabbage in bacon fat, which claims be a good cancer fighter. Light up another cigarette and throw on some more lard, Mama!

Snort. Really? Reader's Digest suggested that?Oh my. How the mighty have falled. I just remember growing up, RD was like the guide to everything nice and courageous stories and health thingies. Cabbage in bacon fat?

Well, I don't think they meant for you to deep fry it in bacon fat, just saute it in a couple of teaspoons. But still, Brenda's right, olive oil and chicken stock is just as good.And no, we Southerners don't fry everything in bacon fat. Sometimes we use peanut oil. mmm...we had fried okra just last night. Yum.

You only live once--try everything. Hell, I even had one of those BK Quad Stackers. You'll have to search my blog for the link. I haven't had one since (because I'd like to see my kids through high school), but damn was it tasty!

I thought we weren't supposed to eat bacon because it's loaded with nitrates which are carcinogens. (I'm relying on my memory here, so I could be meandering alone out in left field on this one, but still...) So now, to avoid cancer we're supposed to eat "good" veggies to ward off the big "C", and then we fry them in a carcinogenic product. Right. I'm getting way too old for this shit.